Cost of college tuition going up by a lot

Are we turning to be the third world country ?
What's gonna cost us to give our children, which is the future of the nation; a quality education ?

It is part of the general plan to keep slavering Americans.

more like the american nightmare

I doubt that our current economy can afford to help out students and colleges. We can always borrow more money like we are doing for the big three. If America can afford to bail out car companies, they can also afford to bail out our students who are going to rebuild this country in the future.

My daughter will graduate this spring. This small WI college is known for it's academics, and to attend there requires the funds not that far from Yale or Harvard.

I'm a low income person. When my daughter set her sights on College she was in Middle school. She knew there was no way I could send her. So she decided to send herself.

Her IQ is a above average but she's certainly no genius. She works. Harder than I do. She was a straight A student from middle school through H.S. graduation. Applied to 5 colleges and was accepted, on scholarship, by all of them.

She lives on campus and works for the college while attending. She's made the Dean's list every semester since she arrived. Applying for enrollment in the "Teach America" program upon graduation, her first two interviews were waived. In the meantime I struggle to buy her a plane ticket to come home on the holidays.

She's going to have a lot of debt to pay off in the upcoming years, in spite of the grants & scholarships - and there's a bunch of them.

Why do I say this? Because it's still possible to a make it. Even from a poor family. What it takes is work and dedication; years of it. There's nothing easy about it. But it CAN be done. My daughter did it. I doubt I could; but she did.

great. i just applied to college, fucking application fees are high enough!

hate to say this but in the uk im sure the tuition fees are much higher with mounting interest on the debt its silly....

I would appreciate cheaper college tuition's. my parents have stared throwing around the coast guard as an option after HS is done. I hope this problem is fixed shortly.

I just graduated and I'm only making $30K. I'm not even working in the field I graduated with.

What a waste of my time. I hope my parents aren't mad for the money they spent. It's good to see that I got out of there just in good time.

If soon to be FORMER PRESIDENT (always a moron) BUSH hadn't spent all the money invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, we could have sent every high school senior to college...Once again just making school accessible for the elite idiots who ruin this country and the world.

Too bad the US rejects socialist education. In Mexico every state has an autonomous university with almost free high school an college for everyone. For last semester I paid around the equivalent to $150 dollars and the standards are excellent. The funny thing is that my scholarship was for $2000 (support to thesis work) so it was kind of a business to get a degree : )

The American dream... what is that?

Coming from a country where the parents generally save up to send their kids to school, it was quite surprising how the system was here in the US when I first got here. Most of the other Asians I knew had their parents footing the bill whilst the Europeans and Americans have taken loans just to get them into college.

Maybe the market would find a niche in establishing cheaper institutions to help people out but with lower standards. I remember studying at a college in the Philippines who's tuition per term was only around US$100 (yes, a hundred dollars) but the standards were so bad...

A less educated population is much easier to control. Damn theM!!!! I really think slavery is still going on but in a different form.

Here we go again! If people want to resolve this problem from its roots we must change this system of deception and debt to a system of value and credit. In the system of value, Education, Jobs, Health Care, Food and Housing it is a matter of National Security and must be supported by the majority living in this Country. You will invest in the most important asset that it is the human asset. More educated people will produce a better and strong society that in turn will produce better products that in turn will...

College costs are just ridiculous. Hopefully Obama will makes some changes in education.

on one level, this is what is happening in greece, high tuition and no jobs afterwards. so people feel helpless and take action.

on another level, who gives a crap. quit consuming and live your life. "education" is not a piece of paper. you dont need a new tv or loads of cash, you will be forever middle class, you will loose the rat race.

The true quality and values of any country is in its people, and the true quality and values within a person is measure by the quality of a person's education. What are they THINKING!?? The whole country's prospect base on education. Why are they doing this? This world had became so monetary profit oriented, and totally forgot the true profit which is our mind. Why are you still hurting us?

Humanity is screwed. wow I'm almost ready to move to island and vanish.

man I hate this crap.... kick em while they're down.

And in Florida they just keep cutting education funding. Every year they cut off more and more...

Paying more money for school only to graduate, be $60 grand to $100 grand in debt and only getting paid the same wages that people made back in the 1970s?

I will pass.

Great....now my parents who will soon have both my brothers in college will be even more broke than they already are!

And I felt bad when they paid for mine....

and so only the rich and elite will be able to afford higher education, fueling the class warfare.

USA! USA! USA!